Retail Banking Job Trends

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 743 599 578
Rank change year-on-year -144 -21 +19
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 60 58 177
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.051% 0.12% 0.25%
As % of the General category 0.11% 0.17% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 20 24 70
10th Percentile £48,125 - £56,000
25th Percentile £69,063 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £98,750 £80,000 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year +23.44% -4.48% +10.85%
75th Percentile £113,750 £88,125 £122,500
90th Percentile £124,625 £111,625 £125,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £71,250 £90,400
% change year-on-year +8.77% -21.18% +19.65%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 55,087 33,591 40,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.38% 68.28% 57.69%
Number of salaries quoted 33,909 17,650 20,286
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -9.48% -3.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £96,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,085 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.05% -13.83% -0.99%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Retail Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 15 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -144 58 £98,750 +23.44% 9
London -90 38 £102,500 +24.24% 7
Work from Home -31 25 £107,500 +13.16% 2
UK excluding London -148 21 £77,500 +8.77% 4
North of England -61 10 £86,250 +32.69%
North West -24 5 £52,500 -19.23%
South West - 4 - -
Yorkshire - 4 - -
Midlands -42 3 £102,500 +32.26%
East Midlands -26 2 - -
South East -53 2 £77,500 - 2
Scotland - 2 - - 1
North East -63 1 £120,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £102,500 -

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 25 (41.67%) Azure
2 14 (23.33%) AWS
3 11 (18.33%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (16.67%) GCP
4 10 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 10 (16.67%) SaaS
5 9 (15.00%) Power Platform
6 8 (13.33%) Mimecast
7 4 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 4 (6.67%) Snowflake
8 3 (5.00%) Dagster
8 3 (5.00%) IaaS
8 3 (5.00%) PaaS
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon Bedrock
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (3.33%) Collibra
9 2 (3.33%) Serverless
9 2 (3.33%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) Power BI
2 8 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 7 (11.67%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.00%) MySQL
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.33%) Metadata
5 2 (3.33%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.67%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) GitLab
General
1 58 (96.67%) Banking
2 55 (91.67%) Finance
3 17 (28.33%) Social Skills
4 15 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
5 12 (20.00%) Law
6 11 (18.33%) Investment Banking
7 10 (16.67%) Legal
8 6 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (10.00%) Retail
9 5 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (5.00%) Marketing
10 3 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (3.33%) Financial Institution
11 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.67%) Cantonese Language
12 1 (1.67%) Electronics
12 1 (1.67%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) Senior
2 13 (21.67%) Software Engineer
3 11 (18.33%) Graduate
3 11 (18.33%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 8 (13.33%) Architect
5 6 (10.00%) Lead
5 6 (10.00%) Senior Architect
5 6 (10.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 6 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (8.33%) Data Scientist
6 5 (8.33%) Lead Data Scientist
6 5 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Senior Data Scientist
7 3 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) AWS Architect
8 2 (3.33%) Business Sales Executive
8 2 (3.33%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Sales Account Executive
8 2 (3.33%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.33%) NumPy
1 8 (13.33%) Pandas
2 5 (8.33%) scikit-learn
2 5 (8.33%) XGBoost
3 4 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 3 (5.00%) jQuery
4 3 (5.00%) PySpark
4 3 (5.00%) React
4 3 (5.00%) REST
5 2 (3.33%) CrewAI
5 2 (3.33%) Kafka
5 2 (3.33%) LangChain
5 2 (3.33%) LangGraph
5 2 (3.33%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (3.33%) RESTful
5 2 (3.33%) Spring
5 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.33%) Terraform
6 1 (1.67%) OAuth
6 1 (1.67%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.67%) Mobile Banking
2 10 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 9 (15.00%) Cloud Native
4 6 (10.00%) Credit Risk
5 5 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (3.33%) Mobile Wallet
6 2 (3.33%) Online Banking
6 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (60.00%) AI
2 25 (41.67%) Machine Learning
2 25 (41.67%) Software Engineering
3 22 (36.67%) Analytics
4 17 (28.33%) Data Science
5 14 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (23.33%) Test Automation
6 12 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
7 11 (18.33%) Computer Science
7 11 (18.33%) Generative AI
7 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (16.67%) Agile
8 10 (16.67%) Data Privacy
8 10 (16.67%) Microservices
9 9 (15.00%) Roadmaps
10 8 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
10 8 (13.33%) Computer Forensics
10 8 (13.33%) Decision-Making
10 8 (13.33%) Incident Response
10 8 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 32 (53.33%) Python
2 25 (41.67%) Java
3 16 (26.67%) SQL
4 11 (18.33%) Go
4 11 (18.33%) Kotlin
4 11 (18.33%) Rust
4 11 (18.33%) TypeScript
5 10 (16.67%) C#
6 8 (13.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (18.33%) Azure Certification
2 9 (15.00%) Degree
3 3 (5.00%) CISA
3 3 (5.00%) CRISC
3 3 (5.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) GDPR
2 5 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.33%) EU AI Act
3 2 (3.33%) ISO 20022
3 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.33%) PMO
3 2 (3.33%) PSD2
4 1 (1.67%) GRC
4 1 (1.67%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) EnCase
1 8 (13.33%) FTK
2 5 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.33%) Grafana
3 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (28.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (26.67%) Google
3 8 (13.33%) Cellebrite
3 8 (13.33%) Nuix
3 8 (13.33%) Relativity
4 4 (6.67%) Databricks
5 3 (5.00%) OpenAI
6 2 (3.33%) Informatica
7 1 (1.67%) Amplitude
7 1 (1.67%) EMC
7 1 (1.67%) Revolut
7 1 (1.67%) Temenos
7 1 (1.67%) Workday